get.cols: Extract column index

In dustinfife/fifer: A Biostatisticians Toolbox for Various Activities, Including Plotting, Data Cleanup, and Data Analysis

Description

Given a vector of strings and another reference vector, get.cols will search the reference vector for matches and return the column indices where each string was located. See examples.

Usage

get.cols(string, names)

Arguments

string	the name of a variable (string)
names	the names of the variables for which you wish to extract the column

Value

an integer corresponding to the column index(indices)

Author(s)

Dustin Fife

See Also

make.null, r

Examples

names = LETTERS[1:10]
get.cols(c("A", "B", "D"), LETTERS[1:10])  ### works
#get.cols(c("A", "B", "Z"), LETTERS[1:10])  ### doesn't work

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